Profile - Lucy Ziegler

Lucy Ziegler
Senior Research Fellow
	Lucy Ziegler joined the Psychosocial Oncology and Clinical Practice Research Group in 2008 from the University of Bradford where she had worked since 2001. Lucy was part of the COMPASS Collaborative an NCRI supportive and palliative care research collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Kings College London. This work focussed on evaluating existing measures of psychological distress and developing consensus regarding the most appropriate measures to identify and monitor distress in oncology. Lucy's background is in health research and the psychosocial consequences of cancer and chronic disease. The focus of Lucy's PhD (completed in 2006) is the psychosocial implications of head and neck cancer. Lucy was appointed to her current post as senior research fellow in May 2010 and took over the day to day management of the Psychosocial Oncology and Clinical Practice Research Group from Dr Penny Wright. +44 (0)113 206 8952